McCoy said the blows were in self defense, “My brother didn’t do nothing wrong. He swung at my brother and my brother hit him a couple of times and that was it.”

Goforth lived long enough to tell investigators who beat him.

McCoy said, “If they convict my brother or don’t let my brother free on this, they’re showing everybody else in the community, all over Memphis, that it’s alright for somebody to come in your property and take what they want.”

He believes McCoy’s past arrest record is the reason he’s in jail now, “That was in his past. This is the present. My brother had straightened his life up and doing right and this is what happened. Memphis is really messed up.”